Electrostani
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My comments on nose-rings, dress codes...
9:45 PM Nov 8th
from web
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"Reforming the Humanities Ph.D." 4 author study on funding, time-to-degree, to be released as a book: RT @
5:58 AM Oct 12th
from web
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Chinua Achebe has a new book of essays out, on life in Nigeria and America.
12:37 PM Oct 10th
from web
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Glissant and Chamoiseau on Obama
12:25 PM Oct 9th
from Echofon
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Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow. Column on the decline of American middle class interest in "great books":
8:21 AM Oct 6th
from bit.ly
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Judith Butler on the crisis in the University of California system:
1:39 PM Oct 5th
from bit.ly
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Amartya Sen's new book, "A Theory of Justice," reviewed in Chronicle A sustained engagement with Rawls.
6:03 AM Oct 3rd
from bit.ly
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John McWhorter is frustrated with African American studies departments, but not opposed to them outright.
5:59 AM Oct 3rd
from bit.ly
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The thing that makes great writers great often comes from their editors. True of T.S. Eliot, true of Raymond Carver...
5:55 AM Oct 3rd
from bit.ly
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Yet another essay by someone on the ostensible decline of the English department (doing just fine at my school)
1:30 PM Sep 24th
from bit.ly
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Michael Dirda revisits J.R. Ackerley's "Hindoo Holiday," a deliciously strange travel narrative a la Forster.
1:26 PM Sep 24th
from bit.ly
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Positive review of Declan Kiberd's new book, "Ulysses and Us" in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
1:23 PM Sep 24th
from bit.ly
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800 people came out to see Marjane Satrapi at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Also in the house: Mayor Michael Nutter.
7:54 PM Sep 23rd
from web
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Michael Berube lays it down: "Cultural studies hasn't had much of an impact at all." RT @
7:37 PM Sep 21st
from web
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@ When I first saw @ I briefly considered parodying its pomposity. Now I'm impressed -- 7000 followers; no joke.
3:22 PM Sep 21st
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in reply to mattthomas
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Thanks @ "It’s not really Žižek." (Sorry for confusion, readers. Perhaps @ is an elaborate parody, starting to slip?)
9:43 AM Sep 21st
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Has someone hacked Zizek's Twitter feed? RT @ "I am on the toilet."
8:17 AM Sep 21st
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Do not, under any circumstances, subject yourself to the film version of "The Watchmen." Tedious & heavy-handed. Do "District 9" instead.
8:07 AM Sep 20th
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"Words strain,/ Crack and sometimes break, slip, slide, perish,.../ Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,/ will not stay still."
8:38 AM Sep 18th
from web
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T.S. Eliot on Twitter: "Not here/ Not here the darkness, in this twittering world./ Descend lower...Into the world of perpetual solitude"
10:11 AM Sep 17th
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- Name amardeep singh
- Location Philly Suburbs
- Web http://www.lehigh...
- Bio I teach literature at Lehigh University, blog a little, and am raising a kid.
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